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WAFFLES (continued): • We owe the ice cream cone to a waffle-maker. DEERE. DEERE. (continued): At the 1904JOHN St. Louis World’s Fair, the owner • ofIt awas while living in Illinois thatout John nobooth selling ice cream ran of cups ticedsought the problems thatfrom farmers facedvendor when and assistance a waffle attempting to till soil. Because the area who helped by rolling up waffles to holdhad the formerly been woodland, the soil was rich ice cream. with hummus, which clumped and clung to
• By 1930s, theplows electric wafflewere ironaccuswas a thethe blades of the farmers common in most households. tomed toappliance using. While repairing a brokenPriccirescular ranged to $12.00, saw,from Deere$7.50 stumbled upon andepending idea. He employed smith skills bell to fashion the when steel on whetherhis it had a signal that rang blade into were the shape the waffles ready.of a plow. He affixed two wooden spokes, then hitched the device
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• The Waffle House chain got its start in 1955 to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil when andwho Tom Forkner like aneighbors charm. In Joe fact,Rogers a farmer happened joined forces in the Atlanta, Joe put was to be observing test runGeorgia. immediately working for a restaurant chain and Tom in an order for his own John Deere plow. was in the real estate business when they made • In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith their dream a reality. Although the friends shop and focused on making plows. The didn’t intend to steadily start a chain, by 1961, company grew and added many there emwere four Waffle Houses. Today there the are ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated 1,700 25 states. Since their 1955 debut, entire in operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed they’ve sold close to 900 million waffles and of his own lack of education, John sent his served uptomore than 2.5 billion eggs.One All the children the state’s finest schools. of bacon they serve one year, laidson end-to-end, his proudest daysinoccurred when Charles earnedwrap the equivalent of an MBA from would around the equator. EveryBell’s year, Commercial Chicago.lbs. of pecans customers eatCollege close toin350,000 these site ofthe thecompany, very first • atWith hisrestaurants. son CharlesThe managing Waffle House is now the company’s museum. John found time to pursue philanthropic interests.San He Jose, co-founded both the First Nation• Three California brothers are real Bank and the First Congregational Church. sponsible for Eggo frozen waffles. Tony, He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, Sam, and Frank Dorsa introduced their prodwhere one of his first actions – the replaceuct to grocery stores in 1953, calling them ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer Froffles, but –when started calling pipe system savedcustomers countless lives by reducthem “eggos” of their “eggy” taste, ing the spread because of disease. the name was changed in 1955. Eggo waffles • The original John Deere logo, registered in are now a division of Kellogg’s, and their ad1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afrivertising slogan “L’eggo my1912, Eggo” is a refaca. Thirty-six years later, in it was miliar placedone. with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In the decades that followed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took Thanks for Reading over as the symbol of the John Tidbits! Deere brand.
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